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Artist Creates Beautiful Portraits From Wine Stains [IMAGES]

Dylan Schenker — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:00:53 +0000

Typically, we’d cry in horror at the thought of spilling red wine on anything, fearing the permanent red blotch it will leave on most surfaces. Instead, we’re loving artist Amelia Harnas’ clever use of wine stains and embroidery to make abstract portraits. Harnas layers stains on top of each other and uses various brands of wine [...]

Artists Makes Real People Look Like Paintings – And the Effect Is Way Eerie [PICTURES]

Dylan Schenker — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:15:02 +0000

How would you react if a painting suddenly came to life? Alexa Meade‘s painted people look like works of art but move like humans — making for an eerie sight.

Whereas most artists would just paint their subjects on a canvas, Meade actually turns her subjects INTO the canvas. She creates life-size installations that are shockingly exact in their similarity to actual acrylic paintings. Upon first glance it’s almost impossible to tell that there are real people under all that paint.

Creepy Andy Warhol Sculpture Imagines the Artist at 83 [VIDEO]

Dylan Schenker — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:30:21 +0000

If Andy Warhol were alive today, how would he react to modern culture? The iconic artist, who died in 1987 at age 58, would probably flip for internet microcelebrities on sites like YouTube, which affirms his “15 minutes of fame” theory.

To commemorate Warhol’s 83rd birthday this past Saturday, artist Edgar Askelovic created a sculpture that imagines what he would have looked like had he lived to see 2011.